Monday, December 21, 2009

[Documentary] Newsnight. Kosovo: Did atrocities continue? [BBC]

"The Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) abducted civilians in Kosovo who were then mistreated and in some cases killed, a BBC investigation has found.

The BBC News investigation also studies claims that some of those held in Albania were killed for their organs, and that physical evidence gathered by UN investigators in Albania was destroyed by the International War Crimes Tribunal.
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There is around 2000 missing people in Kosovo, after the war. Investigations suggest that they were taken to detention camps, ruled by the KLA, in Albania, in front of the eyes of the United Nations throught the border. In Albania, the abducted serbs, gypsies and others, were kept at Kükes or to Burrel, were they would be killed to take some of their organs.

Carla Del Ponte, war crimes ex-chief prosecutor, claims, based on what she describes as credible reports and witnesses, that Kosovan Albanian guerrillas transported hundreds of Serbian prisoners into northern Albania where they were killed, and their organs "harvested" and trafficked out of Tirana airport. [The Guardian]





Crossing Continents: Kosovo [BBC Radio]

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